Privacy disclaimer & Cookies Policy

PRIVACY POLiCY

Information on the Processing of Personal Data

Fondazione Costa Crociere and Costa Crociere S.p.A. (hereinafter also jointly “Costa Crociere”), as data controller, pursuant to Art. 13 of the General European General Data Protection Regulation 679/2016 (hereinafter “GDPR”), provide the following information regarding the processing of personal data that you, as a data subject, have communicated to us:
a) during registration and participation in projects;
b) as part of your relationship with the Fondazione Costa Crociere;
c) registration on the Fondazione Costa Crociere website.

Purposes and legal basis of the processing

a) Purposes relating to contractual performance. Your personal data will be processed in order to allow Costa Crociere to deliver optimal performance, in particular for:
(i) the assignment of certain goods that Costa Crociere wishes to donate;
(ii) the implementation of projects,
(iii) responding to your requests.

b) Purposes of law, for health and safety. Your personal data will also be processed for:
(i) to execute obligations of law, regulations, national and community rules and rules deriveing from provisions issued by authorities legitimated by the law;
(ii) to ascertain, exercise and/or defend a legal right of Costa Crociere.

c) Purposes related to business and statistics. Your personal data will also be processed for purposes relevant or pertinent to activities carried out by Costa Crociere and for the anonymous processing of statistics and market research.

d) Additional purposes. Additionally, with your express consent, your personal data will be processed for the following purposes: to transmit information about Fondazione Costa Crociere’s projects, newsletters and communications concerning new available assets that Costa Crociere intends to donate.

Nature of the data provision and consequences of refusal.

The provision of your personal data is optional, however, in the absence of the data required for the purposes indicated in points a) and b), the requested performance or a part thereof may not be carried out and you will not be able to take advantage of the opportunities mentioned above.

Categories of recipients of personal data.
Your data will not be disclosed. Your data may only be used for the purposes stated above and may only be disclosed to the following categories of subjects:

internal staff of Costa Crociere, as data processor(s);

companies belonging to the same Group of Companies as Costa Crociere, including those located abroad;

persons, companies, associations or professional firms that provide services or assistance and consulting to Costa Crociere in order to protect the rights thereof (for example, accountants, doctors, attorneys, tax advisors, auditors, and/or consultants in the field of auditing operations or due diligence, etc.);

persons, companies, or agencies that provide marketing and analysis services or consultancy activities to Costa Crociere;
subjects whose right to access the data is recognised by legal and is in accordance with regulatory provisions or by provisions issued by authorities legitimised by the law.

The list of subjects to whom the data is communicated is available at the company at the following addresses: info@foundation.costa.it or Costa Crociere S.p.A., Piazza Piccapietra, no. 48, 16121 Genoa, Attn: Fondazione Costa Crociere.

Transfer of personal data outside the European Union.

Your personal data may be transferred abroad to third-party companies belonging or not belonging to the European Union, always for the purposes indicated above.
In case of data transfer to countries outside of the European Union, these countries will guarantee an adequate level of protection based on a specific decision of the European Commission or alternatively the recipient will be contractually obliged to protect the data with an appropriate level, comparable to the protection provided by the GDPR.

Personal data retention.

Personal data will be retained for a period not exceeding that which is necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was collected and subsequently processed. Personal data will be kept for the entire duration of the relationship with the Fondazione Costa Crociere and including for a subsequent period:
i. within the terms established by current legislation;
ii. within the terms established by regulations, according to which, data retention is required (for example, tax returns);
iii. within the period of time necessary to protect the rights of the data owner, in the event of any disputes related to the delivery of the service.

At any time, pursuant to Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, you have the right, including in relation to profiling activity, of:
a) access your personal data;
b) requesting the correction of your personal data;
c) withdrawing, at any time, your consent to the use and disclosure of your personal data;
d) requesting that your personal data is deleted;
e) receiving your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and transmitting your personal data to another data controller;
f) oppose the processing of personal data concerning you, including for marketing or profiling purposes;
g) obtaining limitations on the processing of your personal data;
h) lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority;
i) receiving a communication if there is a violation of personal data;
j) requesting information regarding:

i. the purposes of the processing
ii. the categories of personal data
iii. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be communicated, in particular if the data is transmitted to recipients in third-party countries or international organisations and the existence of appropriate safeguards;
iv. the retention period of the personal data
v. where the personal data is not collected from the data subject, any available information regarding its origin;
You may at any time oppose the sending of communications related to marketing and profiling activities via the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the e-mail you received or by forwarding a specific request to the addresses indicated below.
You may exercise these rights and/or obtain more information regarding the processing of personal data by sending a communication:
– by e-mail to info@foundation.costa.it or to Costa Crociere S.p.A. Piazza Piccapietra 48, 16121 Genoa, Attn: Fondazione Costa Crociere.

Cookies Policy

Please note that we use “cookies” technology to obtain information about your experience on our website and to allow certain services to operate that require the user’s path through the various pages of the website to be identified.

What are cookies?

A “cookie” is information sent by a server to a browser, which allows the server to collect information from the browser, and vice versa. The cookie will help the website to recognise your device the next time you visit. There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

Our cookies are anonymous and are not traceable to the user’s personal data. First-party cookies are associated to the domain name of the page you are looking at and allow the person to be identified by cross-reference with our database, may only be assigned at the explicit request of users and in order to allow their immediate identification for access to restricted areas of the website without requiring them to enter the login and password manually. The user’s identity is never in any case included directly in the cookie and cannot be intercepted.

Every time you access the website, regardless of whether a cookie is present or not, we record the type of browser, the operating system and host and the visitor’s source URL, as well as information on the requested page. This data may then be used in aggregate and anonymous form for statistical analysis of how the website is being used.

What types of Cookies does Costa Crociere Foundation use?

Three types of cookies are used on our website: Strictly necessary, performance, functionality. Our website does not collect personal details and information relating to the individual, unless he/she voluntarily decides to enter them. You can, therefore, browse our website without disclosing any personal identifiable data, including your email address. Remember that if you choose to disable cookies, some sections of the website may not work properly.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Some cookies are essential for our website to work properly. These cookies allow us to provide the services requested by users and allow you to browse the website to the best of its capabilities. This type of cookie cannot be disabled because it is needed for the website to work properly.

Performance and functionality cookies

Performance cookies gather anonymous information about the pages visited by users. They are used to track the pages most frequently sought and are useful for improving links between pages and determining the reason for possible error messages. Functionality cookies also save the choices made by users in order to improve navigation and your online experience. If you remove these cookies, which do not gather any sensitive user data, you will lose some of the functionalities of the website, which will therefore perform less well.

Third-party cookies

Costa Crociere Foundation also uses third-party cookies, installed by Google Analytics for example, to process statistical analyses of the user’s browsing habits, on the number of pages visited or the number of clicks the user makes on a page when browsing. Costa Crociere Foundation processes the results of these analyses for statistical purposes on website user behaviour, in order to improve and fine-tune website content. If you would like further information about third-party cookies, and for information about how to manage or refuse them, click on the links in the table:

Google Analytics

(Google Inc.) Google Analytics is a Web analysis service supplied by Google Inc. (“Google”).
Google could use the Personal Data to contextualise and customise the advertisements of its own advertising network (script set for anonymous tracking).

We have links so you can use social networking websites (e.g. Facebook and Twitter or You Tube). These websites may place cookies on your computer and this tool will not block cookies from these websites. We suggest you check the networking website to see how they are using cookies.

Facebook I Like Button and social widgets

(Facebook, Inc.) The Facebook “I Like” and social widgets are interaction services with the Facebook social network, supplied by Facebook, Inc.

We will only read or write cookies for the preference level set in the Cookies Settings tool. Cookies set prior to you changing your settings will still be on your computer and you can remove them using your browser settings.

Some additional information about the cookies settings tool

We use a cookie to remember your cookie preferences in the Cookies Settings tool this has a couple of consequences:

If you delete all your cookies you will have to update your preferences with us again; and

If you use a different device, computer or browser you will have to tell us your preferences again

Cookie preference settings are set for this website only (www.costa-crociere-foundation.com).

Do we track whether users open our emails?

Our emails may contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through from links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to users, and query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. From that moment on we will not be able to get any data, but will keep previous one.

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Managing cookies in the browser

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